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Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

Deriving co-speech 3D gestures has seen tremendous progress in virtual avatar animation. Yet, the existing methods often produce stiff and unreasonable gestures with unseen human speech inputs due to the limited 3D speech-gesture data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xingqun Qi , Hengyuan Zhang , Yatian Wang , Jiahao Pan , Chen Liu , Peng Li , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Generating gestures from human speech has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While the existing methods enable synthesizing gestures cooperated by individual self-talking, they overlook the practicality of concurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingqun Qi , Yatian Wang , Hengyuan Zhang , Jiahao Pan , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

The automated synthesis of high-quality 3D gestures from speech is of significant value in virtual humans and gaming. Previous methods focus on synthesizing gestures that are synchronized with speech rhythm, yet they frequently overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingrong Cheng , Xu Li , Xinghui Fu , Fei Xia , Zhongqian Sun

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

While increasing attention has been paid to co-speech gesture synthesis, most previous works neglect to investigate hand gestures with explicit and essential semantics. In this paper, we study co-speech gesture generation with an emphasis…

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for creating lifelike avatars and enhancing human-computer interactions by synchronizing gestures with speech. Despite recent advancements, existing methods struggle with accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pinxin Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ari Shapiro , Kyle Olszewski

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for automatic digital avatar animation. However, existing methods suffer from issues such as unstable training and temporal inconsistency, particularly in generating high-fidelity and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Longbin Ji , Pengfei Wei , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin

Conversational scenarios are very common in real-world settings, yet existing co-speech motion synthesis approaches often fall short in these contexts, where one person's audio and gestures will influence the other's responses.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Mingyi Shi , Dafei Qin , Leo Ho , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Yinghao Huang , Junichi Yamagishi , Taku Komura

Animating virtual characters with holistic co-speech gestures is a challenging but critical task. Previous systems have primarily focused on the weak correlation between audio and gestures, leading to physically unnatural outcomes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang

For human-like agents, including virtual avatars and social robots, making proper gestures while speaking is crucial in human--agent interaction. Co-speech gestures enhance interaction experiences and make the agents look alive. However, it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Youngwoo Yoon , Bok Cha , Joo-Haeng Lee , Minsu Jang , Jaeyeon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Geehyuk Lee

Co-speech gesture generation is to synthesize a gesture sequence that not only looks real but also matches with the input speech audio. Our method generates the movements of a complete upper body, including arms, hands, and the head.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shenhan Qian , Zhi Tu , Yihao Zhi , Wen Liu , Shenghua Gao

Although previous co-speech gesture generation methods are able to synthesize motions in line with speech content, it is still not enough to handle diverse and complicated motion distribution. The key challenges are: 1) the one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lianying Yin , Yijun Wang , Tianyu He , Jinming Liu , Wei Zhao , Bohan Li , Xin Jin , Jianxin Lin

Human motion modeling is important for many modern graphics applications, which typically require professional skills. In order to remove the skill barriers for laymen, recent motion generation methods can directly generate human motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Mingyuan Zhang , Zhongang Cai , Liang Pan , Fangzhou Hong , Xinying Guo , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yuanqi Du , Wayne Wu , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

Due to their significance in human communication, the automatic generation of co-speech gestures in artificial embodied agents has received a lot of attention. Although modern deep learning approaches can generate realistic-looking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Hendric Voß , Stefan Kopp

Gestures are non-verbal but important behaviors accompanying people's speech. While previous methods are able to generate speech rhythm-synchronized gestures, the semantic context of the speech is generally lacking in the gesticulations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yihao Zhi , Xiaodong Cun , Xuelin Chen , Xi Shen , Wen Guo , Shaoli Huang , Shenghua Gao

The generation of co-speech gestures for digital humans is an emerging area in the field of virtual human creation. Prior research has made progress by using acoustic and semantic information as input and adopting classify method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fan Zhang , Naye Ji , Fuxing Gao , Siyuan Zhao , Zhaohan Wang , Shunman Li

Speech-driven gesture generation is an emerging field within virtual human creation. However, a significant challenge lies in accurately determining and processing the multitude of input features (such as acoustic, semantic, emotional,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Fan Zhang , Zhaohan Wang , Xin Lyu , Siyuan Zhao , Mengjian Li , Weidong Geng , Naye Ji , Hui Du , Fuxing Gao , Hao Wu , Shunman Li